President

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Dr. Katharine Robson Brown
University College Dublin (Ireland)
E-mail: katharine.robsonbrown@ucd.ie
Web:
Discipline: Life Sciences
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Dr. Elisa Raffaella Ferre
Department of Psychological Sciences,
Birkbeck University of London
Malet St, London, WC1E7HX, UK
E-mail: elisa.ferre@bbk.ac.uk
Discipline: Life Sciences (Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology)
Secretary

Dr. Philip Carvil
Science and technology Facilities Council (STFC), RB2, Daresbury Laboratory, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Keckwick Lane, Cheshire, WA4 4AD, UK.
E-mail: Philip.carvil@stfc.ac.uk
Discipline: Life Sciences (Human Physiology)
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Dr.-Ing. Thorben Könemann
ZARM Drop Tower Operation and Service Co.
Universität Bremen, Am Fallturm 2, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)421 218-57785
Cellphone: +49 (0)175 2279376
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Dr. Raúl Herranz
CIB Margarita Salas
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
C/ Ramiro de Maeztu 9 28040 · Madrid, Spain
E-mail: rherranz@cib.csic.es
Web: https://www.cib.csic.es/project/SOSmicrogravity
Discipline: Life Sciences (Plant Space Omics and Simulated microgravity)
Member
Stefan Krämer
Science Services Division
Swedish Space Corporation
Phone: +46 (0) 8 627 62 44
Mobile: +46 (0) 70 639 75 21
stefan.kramer@sscspace.com
Torggatan 15
SE-171 54 Solna, Sweden
Disciplines: Microgravity Science and Technology, Education
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Dr. Anna Sabaté Garcia
Space Faculty Pte Ltd
298 Tiong Bahru Rd (Central Plaza)
Level 4, Office 4002
168730 Singapore
E-mail: anna.sabate@spacefaculty.asia
Discipline: Bioengineering and applied physics
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SELGRA President
Jacob Mali
Aditional SELGRA Managing Committee members
Maryam Haq (United Kingdom)
PhD Student in the Vestibular Neuroscience Lab at Birkbeck, University of London
Discipline: Vestibular and Cognitive Neuroscience
Sharon van Rijthoven (The Netherlands)
Biomedical Engineering graduate on the hunt for a PhD
Discipline: Hypergravity Studies, Space Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering
Federica Torre (Italy)
PhD student in Physics at Politecnico di Milano
Discipline: Lab on Chip-Microfluidics glass-based, manufactured by femtosecond laser
Daniel Cieślak (Poland)
MSc Student in Biomedical Engineering – Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Medical Signal Processing, Space Medicine
Ana Paula Guevara-Cerdán (United Kingdom)
PhD candidate, University of Sheffield
Discipline: Molecular and Cellular Biology
Former ELGRA Presidents
- Philip Carvil (2021-2024)
- Ricard González-Cinca (2018-2020)
- Monica Monici (2015-2017)
- Valentina Shevtsova (2011- 2015)
- Jack van Loon (2007–2011)
- Daniel Beysens (2003–2007)
- Marianne Cogoli-Greuter (1999–2003)
- Manuel G. Velarde (1997–1999)
- Gerard Perbal (1995–1997)
- Yves Malméjac (1993–1995)
- Jan P.B. Vreeburg (1989–1993)
- Augusto Cogoli (1986–1989)
- Luigi G. Napolitano (1981–1986)
- Herbert Weiss (1979–1981)
Former ELGRA Management Committee Members
- Christian Lockowandt (2017-2024)
- Eric Falcon (2017 – 2023)
- Marcel Egli (2017 – 2021)
- Carole Leguy (2011 – 2019)
- Kurt Kemmerle (2003 – 2019)
- F. Javier Medina (2007 – 2013)
- Hendrik Kuhlmann (1999 – 2011)
- Klaus Wittmann ( – 2003)
